REGISTER for PacINET 2013 The annual PICISOC Conference, PacINET 2013, is scheduled to be held at the Fa’onelua convention centre, Nuku’alofa, Tonga. Our host will be the Tonga Ministry of Information and you can register here. This year’s event celebrates the emergence of high speed Internet connectivity at the Kingdom of Tonga. Our theme is…
Applications for the Durban meeting (July 14-18) have closed – we have two Pacific Island Fellowship awardees attending this meeting. They are Etuate Cocker (Tonga) and Andrew Rarumae (Solomon Islands). The application round for Fellowships to the 48th ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina to be held 17-21 November 2013 is now open. Application…
MAUREEN HILYARD – PICISOC BOARD CHAIR This first meeting of ICANN for 2013 was hosted by the Asia Pacific Regional At Large Organisation (APRALO) – one of five regional sections of the At Large Advisory Council (ALAC). The At Large community consists of At Large Structures (ALS) which are the individual organisations which are…
The Japan-Pacific ICT Centre of the University of the South Pacific in Suva provided a large auditorium facility for PacINET 2012, and a great backdrop for learning about internet development in the Pacific. The event was streamed live and recorded, so that remote participants were able to ‘attend’ some interesting presentations. The conference was…
Engaging with early PICISOC pioneers by skype at the start of the birthday event for the Internet Society on the island of Fiji, as a forerunner to the PacINET which was to take place in Suva, set the scene for describing similarities between those who established ISOC 20 years ago and those who established PICISOC not long after….
Congratulations to the sucessful candidates who were recently voted onto the Board of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society: Ellen Strickland New Zealand Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui Niue Etuate Cocker New Zealand Louise Nasak Vanuatu They join the remaining members of the Board: Andrew Molivurae Vanuatu David Leeming Solomon Islands Maureen Hilyard Cook Islands…
Click below for the latest version of our conference agenda – November 2012. Many thanks to the Fiji PacINET Coordinating Committee – Siaosi, Anju, Sala, Kisione, and other voluteers. PACINET_Provisional_Agenda_Nov 2012
The Seventh Annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Meeting will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 6-9 November, 2012. The proposed main theme for the meeting is: ‘Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development’. The meeting in Baku will revolve around the role of Internet governance in promoting various forms of development. The theme also emphasizes the…
The bios and photographs of the six candidates standing for election to the Board 2012-2013 can be found @ https://picisoc.org/board-business/2012-board-elections/board-candidates-nominations-for-election-2012/ Please fill in your ballot form, and vote for the FOUR candidates you want to elect to the Board. Send your completed ballot form to picisoc@internetnz.net.nz Elections close on 9 November 2012. Current Board members…
PACINET REGISTRATION FORM – REGISTER HERE. (With many thanks to Sachindra Singh, SOPAC )
PacINET 2012 Conference Japan Pacific ICT Centre 22nd – 26th November 2012 BACKGROUND PacINET is the annual regional conference of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet SOCiety (PICISOC). The first formal internet organisation in the Pacific region, IT-PacNET,…
Kia orana everyone We invite all PICISOC members to attend our PacINET in Suva. We are aware that members may require a letter for their employers to explain what the PICISOC conference hopes to achieve. Please click here to download the invitation. Please click here for further information about the conference. Speaker details are currently…
The group B2M from the Tiwi Islands have put together a great video about keeping safe online. Share it with your friends. B2M – Strong Choices – Cyber Safety Message
Many tributes have been flowing at Les’s passing… Raj Singh, from the Asia Pacific ISOC Chapter bureau pays tribute to his friend. Raj writes… With great sadness, I advise the passing away of my good friend, co-conspirator, and long time ISOC member, Les Allinson. Les spent a couple of decades working in the Pacific…
The PICISOC community is sad to hear of the news of Les Allinson’s passing. Les played a key role in the establishment of PICISOC as well as pioneering ICTs and Internet in the Pacific when working as IT Manager at SOPAC (see PICISOC history page).